Show mlaalr of a rkr Philadelphia Record Enormous business has been done lately at Trench fairs by a man who professed to tell n rat ponder that was perfectly harm lest and that struck rats dead on the spot In order to convince I the tkentl cal the man first of all pon ereil a a too of bread with the stuff and ate a piece of It himself Then ho put tho remainder remain-der under a glast case In which n rat was kept In I captivity I The rat went to eat tho bread and Instantly fell dead At D pence a box the powder went oil like hot rolls and the lucky proprietor rOt roll1 noan Yfrt r of tho specific was In I n fair way to make a fortune Rat the police who In Trance are very active In protecting people from fraud looked Into the matter mat-ter and found that the powder I nothing but ordinary sugar They 1 also discovered that the cao nat connected con-nected with a powerful electrto battery bat-tery and the moment the rat touched the bread the current was turned on and It I nat thus his death was brought about The man nut arrested at the fair of Albla and ho wat sentenced to fifteen Oars Imprisonment < |